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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 167 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two
Mark Zuckerberg wants status and belonging Harvard's final clubs won't give him, so he builds a website that gives the world both — and loses his best friend and co-founder to the company he built to prove he mattered.
Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.
He wants to matter — to be let into the final clubs, to be exceptional enough that Erica's verdict is wrong — and Facemash is the first proof-of-concept.
He takes the Winklevoss pitch as a springboard, builds theFacebook in its place, and launches it into a world he can't control.
Expansion to Yale, Columbia, Stanford; the move to Palo Alto; the costs mount — Eduardo sidelined, the twins circling, the company outgrowing its dorm-room shape.
Eduardo storms into a Bank of America branch to freeze the company's account and cancel its lines of credit.
Establishing shot of a San Francisco skyscraper.
Mark and Sean wait to meet investor Peter Thiel, trading small talk about the building's film history.
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Several of Thiel’s lieutenant’s are sitting around.
PETER
She offer you guys some waters?
SEAN
Oh yeah, we’re cool.
MAURICE
Sean, come on in. You must be Mark.
MARK
Hi.
PETER
We took a look at everything and
congratulations. We’re gonna start you
off with a $500,000 investment. Maurice
is gonna talk to you about some corporate
restructuring.
MAURICE
We’ll file as a Corporation in Delaware
and come up with a stock structure that
allows for new investors.
PETER
Now lemme ask you something. Who’s
Eduardo Saverin?
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